Best One And Only Poems
Below are the all-time best One And Only poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of one and only poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
one and only, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Cinder GirlAn ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames...
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Categories:
one and only,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
one and only, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Like a GirlI play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl,
And when I run -- I run like a...
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Categories:
one and only, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Twilight AuroraLike an interrupted dream
shadows of the one
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.
No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...
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Categories:
one and only, absence, angst, love,
Form:
Free verse
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
one and only, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
one and only, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Fire and IcePart I: Ice
He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...
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Categories:
one and only, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection**REFLECTION**
Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...
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Categories:
one and only, abuse, death, for her,
Form:
Epic
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
one and only, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
one and only, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
BrokenOn a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare
In a nightmare with no windows
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody
Flowers, above
My eyes...
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Categories:
one and only, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
It Matters NotIt hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.
I follow on along a...
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Categories:
one and only, dark, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
Conversation With My SoulDwell not, O soul, on yesterday,
on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago,
today may be...
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Categories:
one and only, giving, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
one and only, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet